communal space

collocation in English

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communal
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.jə.nəl/
us
/ˈkɑː.mjə.nəl/
belonging to or used by a group of people rather than one ...
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space
noun
uk
/speɪs/
us
/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofcommunalandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is unclear, however, how thecommunalspaceof a household would serve to maintain community linkages.
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Thecommunalspacewas domesticated, then, and the direction of the prisoners' activity within that space strongly referenced the bourgeois domestic scene.
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This hospice body is a body on display, located incommunalspacein order to enact the ideal of the open confrontation with death.
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Although striving to be irregular rather than regular in composition, both depend on the inhabited wall enclosing and defining streets andcommunalspace.
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Such behavior, considered so foul by the reformers, actually constitutes a form of resistance to the middle-class fashioning ofcommunalspaceand its uses.
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Kealhofer also argues that it is unclear how thecommunalspaceof a household would serve to maintain community linkages.
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Whilst the text rejects bourgeois individualist interiority as a repository of aesthetic truth, architecture takes up the narrative function of emotional complexity and embodied history:communalspacedisplaces individual depth.
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A suggested basic room requirement is that there should be at least 4.1 sq m for each resident (communalspacemust include a social room and a dining room).
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In some cases, one family would take up residence in each room, with the hallway providingcommunalspace.
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The older blocks had littlecommunalspacebut somewhat larger rooms.
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The vast majority of settlements consisted of several houses congregated incommunalspaceof the village or a hamlet.
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Ideally, and certainly in terms of crime prevention, back gardens should adjoin other back gardens or a securecommunalspace...
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The limited size of the private area is compensated by the provision of a large landscapedcommunalspace.
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In addition to the two reservoirs in the epicenter, four wells are known in the civic or communal spaces; the rest occur within residential units.
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We suggest that the walls served the more basic function of differentiating private residential spaces from each other and from communal spaces.
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As government supervision was enforced in communal spaces, private houses became important arenas where extra-household relationships were routinely maintained.
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Communal spaces created social networks that would become the basis for collective action in the post-revolutionary period.
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The on-site amenities and communal spaces enhanced the opportunities for social interaction.
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The lawmakers sharecommunalspace.
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